Hat leather attaching means



12, 1933- R. A. LINDEN HAT LEATHER ATTACHING MEANS Filed Dec. 22. 1930 INVE'NTOR 20hr? 11 Linden a (3. JW

ATTORNEY Patented Dec. 12, 1933 HAT LEATHER ATTACHING MEANS Robert A. Linden, Flushing, N. Y., assignor to George S. Bracher Manufacturing Company, New York, N. Y., a corporation of Maine Application December 22, 1930 Serial No. 504,008

1 Claim.

This invention relates to leathers or sweat bands for hats and is more particularly concerned with the provision of simple and effective means whereby leathers may be readily attached to hats and whereby at the same time perspiration is precluded from passing into the hat through stitches in'the leather. The invention thereby provides for obviating discoloration of hats by perspiration, which has proven a source of annoyance in connection with previous forms of leather attaching means. I shall describe herein an embodiment of my invention and shall point out the novel features of the invention in claim appended hereto.

In the accompanying drawing:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a hat, the latter being partly broken away to show an embodiment of my invention applied thereto.

Fig. 2 is a detail view of a hat leather and attaching means embodying my invention, a portion of the attaching means being shown folded into its final form and another portion unfolded for the sake of clearness.

Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view on line 33 of Fig. 2, and a Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view on line 4-4 of Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawing, there is shown at 2 a hat leather of conventional form. The means for attaching the leather to the hat comprises a strip 3 of material such as is commonly used for attaching leathers to hats; as, for example, rubber, cloth, or other suitable material. The strip 3 which I provide is folded upon itself to form two plies 3, 3" as shown in Fig. 4, and the leather is stitched near an edge thereof, as indicated at 4, to only the ply 3'. The ply 3" does not receive any of the stitches 4, and instead covers said stitches and associated holes in the ply 3'. Conveniently, the leather may be first stitched to the strip 3 intermediate the edges of the latter as indicated in Fig. 2 and then said strip may be folded upon itself to provide the plies 3, 3" aforesaid, the fold 3" extending beyond the leather a desired distance for attachment of the latter to the hat. The two plies are fastened together, as by stitching 5, near their upper edges so that uniform width of edge or fold 3" may be maintained above the leather. The leather 2 and attaching strip 3 are shown in Fig. 1 applied to a hat 6. The fold 3" may be fastened to the hat in the same way that the portions of attaching strips extending beyond hat leathers are commonly secured to hats, as by stitching or in any other suitable manner.

It will be seen that the ply 3 of the attaching strip extends between the hat and the stitches 4 in the leather 2 and ply 3, and thus blocks perspiration from seeping through the stitches 4 and associated stitch holes into the hat. Discoloration of the hat, which has heretofore been occasioned by such seepage, is thus obviated. At the same time the leather may be readily and expeditiously attached to the hat.

While a single strip folded to produce the plies 5 3', 3 provides a particularly effective instrumentality for carrying out my invention, said plies may alternatively be in the form of individual strips. Thus, where individual plies or strips are employed said plies can be stitched together 7 along one edge, as are the plies 3', 3" at 5, and one of said individual plies can be stitched to the leather while the other covers the stitches in the first; both individual plies further extending beyond the leather for atachment to the hat by stitching or in any other suitable manner. Various other modifications of the invention may be made within the scope of the claim which follows.

I claim:

In combination, a hat leather, and a unitary strip of moisture impervious material for attaching said leather to a hat, the leather being stitched near an edge thereof to said strip, and a portion of said strip being folded over to cover said stitches, a portion of the folded strip extending beyond an edge of the leather for attaching the latter to a hat, and the plies formed by the folded strip being fastened one to the other to maintain a substantially uniform width of strip beyond said leather and the first named portion in position.

ROBERT A. LINDEN. 

